MyFlik Environmental Green Story Ideas For Films

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10. Solar Thermal

Theme: Slat-array concentrator

Main Points To Communicate:

1. Solar shares program at turkey farm
2. Solar panels on individual homes can reduce energy consumption
3. Solar hot water heaters have been around for years, but are making a comeback.
4. Many of the large scale solar/utility-scale solar plants are concentrating solar or concentrating solar thermal plants – converting solar energy into high temperature heat, where the heat is used to create steam to generate electricity.
5.Can new solar technology lower initial panel cost and increase efficiency?

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Links and Source images:

www.smud.org/community-environment/

After the chart below of random story ideas, there are some ways to combine them into fast film scripts and example films to watch for more ideas. These environmental story ideas for student short films are evolving and will be added to over the course of the next year.

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Characters	Set Ideas	Antagonists/Conflicts	Plot Goals	Visual Story Ideas
solar turkey farm tourguide	solar farm	no sun at times	To explain how solar energy works	Animated 2D, DV, 3D School House Rock type film (see example YouTube videos below)
talking turkey	solar house	ignorance about solar power	To educate people on solar energy	Interview a solar farm tourguide about how it works
3D animated talking turkey	sunny places to contrast with foggy ones	anti-solar power people	To explain how well solar energy works	Place a DV face on a solar panel (DV clip or a photo)
foggy house bad for solar then show sunny house good for solar	solar factories	sun haters	To show the best places for solar panels	Do a singing solar farm story where a group of roating panels explain how they work like a musical
funny inventor talking about how innovations in solar all converging to reduce price	solar panels in your area you can shoot	people who do not understand solar	To explain solar energy to kids in simple way	Play with the sound of the sun sizzling on the solar panles
rich solar home people	sunset / sunrise	cost of installing solar		Have narrator voice sound hot and sweaty
hot water heater lovers	solar factory	fog		Shoot a bunch of slick and beautiful solar panel shots with a voice over explaining how they work
solar engineer	SMUD solar DV footage	rain		Do a fake funny outragous ad for solar power
kid asking parent about how solar shares work	SMUD solar locations available for shoots			Show how a funny or interesting character's life changes by learning how solar energy works
sun teacher	famous solar farms			Have an ridiculous expert give a funny tour of a solar factory
the Sun as a character (how would this look?)	traveling inside a solar energy system using 3D			Play with the sun as a spiritual image where people meditate or worship it in funny ways while talking about solar POWER
funny solar expert
solar fanatic - crazy about loving sunlight
two animated solar panels talking on a roof about how they work
solar energy superhero - think up a great name!
Solar future TV show spoof - How does the new solar family house look in 2030?

School House Rock Film Examples: The following cartoon short films "How A Bill Becomes A Law" and "Conjunction Junction" are great ways to convey a process with of lots of information at once. How can you update the look and feel of the films below using DV, 2D and 3D combinations or styles? How could you come up with a catchy song that rhymes to explain how windmills work?

Fast Solar Energy Film Ideas:

1) Show a solar farmer talking about how he harvests sun power for his home and others. Then show his house all lit up with crazy electrical things like Christmas lights, rotating statues, inner disco lights, an electric fence and spot lights.

2) Play with the sun as a spiritual image where people meditate or worship it in funny ways while talking about solar POWER.

3) Do a Sun monologue where it talks about how hard it works to provide light and free energy while showing wow shots of sunsets and sunrises.

4) Do a superhero Sun story where the goal is to educate people about how wind energy works. Think of funny names such as Super Sun, Sunlight, Solar Powerman, WonderSun, Sunblast or Super Solar Woman.

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MyFlik Movies On Visual Storytelling:

Watch some movies below from the online Story Engine on Storytelling Goals, Creating Themes and Using Symbols and Metaphors. These short films are samples from the new 20 hour step-by-step "Writing A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop:

Follow along and create a great film or story idea fast! Download the Workbook PDF file or DOC file to edit. You can also use a notebook or paper and the Online Workbook or watch it in 20 Steps.

Sample Movies

Below are some sample movies from the 94 minute version above on Storytelling Goals, Creating Themes and Using Symbols and Metaphors. These short films are part of the new 20 hour step-by-step "Writing A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop: